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One aspect that is often overlooked is a room acoustics - especially reverb time. Have you ever felt cosy in a large church?

Or, if you have ever been to a wedding and wondered why everybody started talking louder and louder and it's hard to understand, a room with too large reverb time is a very probable causes. This is very draining mentally.

The same goes for living spaces, especially since newer homes tend to use lots of smooth surfaces like glass, tiles and concrete, which increase reverb time a lot.

Book shelves, curtains and furniture will increase a room's diffusiveness and reduce reverb time, making rooms feel so much better.

Man, I just realized it's been 20 years for me. I vaguely remember sometime in 2006 that Windows Vista was inevitable and decided to switch to linux.

I don't care about fussing around and just need a useful machine for work and fun. Linux is far from perfect for me but the amount of crap windows or macos throw at me when I have to use them is almost comical.

Thank you! That's exactly what I wanted to hear :)

Has anyone real-life experience with these tools?

Posts like this are the reason why the internet and software development felt magic to me as teenager.

This stuff still is magic to me. Wonderful work!

Not trying to be rude, but in a technology you're not familiar with you might not be able to know what good code is, and even less so if it's maintainable.

Finding and fixing that subtle, hard to reproduce bug that could kill your business after 3 years.

You're missing Signal which has gained a lot of traction in the last years.

Apart from that it's hard to take statements from such an ignorant US centristic point of view about what europe is/has/has not seriously.

Let's see how things will play out for europe and how our souvereignty efforts will impact the US economy.

Owning the issue is one thing, but being able to fix issues with a reasonable amount of resources is another.

To me code created like this smells like technical debt. When bugs appear after 6 months in production - as they do, if you didn't fully understand the code when developing it, how much time, energy and money will it cost to fix the problem later on?

More often than I like I had to deal with code where it felt like the developer did'nt actually understand what they were writing. Sometimes I was this developer and it always creates issues.

I absolutely love the progress that was made in the several last years! The number of VST/audio plugins available on linux has grown from being quite a problem to having an actual ecosystem!

The jetbrains IDEs hav some very useful features falling into this category, these come to my mind immediately:

- Making variables, functions,... grey if they're not used - Temporarily coloring variables + their usages when the cursor is on one - Showing wiggled red underlines for syntax errors

Especially the unused code feature is wonderful.

Why once successful?

But more importantly, tell me more about the scandals, I love good gossip :)

Just in case people don't realize, the author is Dries Buytaert who created drupal.

Just as we aren't far from actually usable and safe self driving cars since 10+ years.

This is not a valid argument.

In your opinion, what's the problem with the port concept of the frame.work?

Which unfortunately is not a solution since harsher punishments have shown to not prevent crime.

> Such as call-by-reference only working 2 recursions deep.

Which smells like an anti-pattern to me. Blaming bad code on the language is one way to deal with it.

> Arbitrary decisions and namings on stdlib.

This is absolutely true and even more annoying I find that the ordering of stdlib arguments is inconsistent. Backwards-compatibility is one of the reasons this has not changed, I guess.

What I don't understand is, why people don't apply that same legitimate criticism to python. I recently had to do a project in python and was astounded by the amount of arbitrary namings and design choices.

I also agree that many php codebases, especially if not written in a good framework, are a hot mess.

That being said, the ecosystem if using decent frameworks with php 8+ versions very productive in terms of time vs results and a joy to work with.

I recently discovered shdotenv and I like it a lot!

How so? All over Europe the same infrastructure is being used for both.

Didn't know about cheat.sh. Thank you for that, I love it!

Related to that, I recently learned about safe-rm which lets you configure files and directories that can't be deleted.

This probably would have prevented a stressful incident 3 weeks ago.

Quality never was the only or even the most important aspect of popularity in music and probably art in general.

So I'm not sure your projection is valid.

I didn't know that, thanks!

I'd like to see what the european court of justice will have to say about this, should this actually become law.

Do you have a source for that?

Upvoted just for the name and acronym!

This is really cool! Thanks for creating and sharing!

Here some things that might help you:

1. Most probably you will need help of someone who knows a little about technology. Maybe you can ask someone you know or pay them by helping (time for time).

2. Since you said in a comment that you have poor eyesight, let someone with a magnifying glass check if the usb port on your old phone is simply clogged up. This is quite likely to be part of the issue.

3. Try different usb cables and charging ports, ideally one that you can verify that works by testing on another device (for example the new phone). These things break all the time.

4. Try carefully wiggling the usb jack while the charger is connected and it should be charging if nothing was broken. The goal here is to find a position where the phone gets charged at least for a bit. Also note: If the phone is off it might take several seconds before the phone indicates that it is actually charging. This is fidgety but could resolve your problem quickly and easily.

5. If the phone has wireless charging you can go to star bucks or restaurants, some provide wireless chargers. You might get some charging done and resolve this.

6. [Technical person needed] You can order a battery replacement (also search on craigslist). If your phone is not too new/fancy this should be very cheap. Then the technical person can swap the batteries and try charging the old phone again. If the old phone then works you can sell it and get a little money back :)

7. [Technical person needed] Depending on your exact phone (the old one) you could search craigslist for a broken one where the screen is damaged but the phone otherwise works (these should be very cheap). You can then charge this phone and and let the technical person swap the battery, same as above.

8. Repair shops: Since your problem (the part that the phone is not charging) is quite common, repair shops might have even more possible solutions. I don't know about the US but in europe many of those are very affordable, especially small ones.

9. Can you tell us the manufacturer and model of your old/broken phone? It's not unlikely that someone on HN has the some model or a battery replacement lying around and you can pick it up or pay for shipping or they might even pay for shipping it to you.

Come one HN, this is a solvable problem!

About 10 years ago I was contacted by an agency I used to work with, that they needed to change a little feature in the android app for the austrian lotteries.

The problem they had was that they had managed to lose the source code of the app, lol. Since the app was a simple webview wrapper I decompiled the apk to some horrendous java monstrocity and carefully extracted all used logic, the html, css and js and created a new webview app with the slightly modified code.

Oh and I had no experience in Java or Android development :)

Another hack I was very proud of:

Some weeks ago I had to pick something up with a car trailer. I went to my parent's place to get it and when checking if the lights worked (it was dark already) it turned out that they did not. Since I was driving to a larger city I could not just go without lights.

The problem was, that I really had to pick this up and also I had no extra time to find an alternative solution, so I wiggled the jack of the trailer's cable in all directions hoping to clear out some oxidation. After some minutes of trying I found a specific position in which the lights seemed to work.

Taking out the good old duct tape from my car's trunk I fixated the jack against the trailer hitch. For some reason it actually worked and did not break. I was very proud of this hack!

Obviously I didn't fix it yet :-P

This was one of the issues that brought my last relationship to an end (being 39y now).

I used to downplay it and together with my partner tried to find a way.

Anyway, this sounds like a relationship issue. If your partner does not want kids it's possible that some kind of decision is needed (that's what our couples therapist said which turned out to be real good advice in my case).

If she can't have kids - there are other ways like adoption,...

If this is impacting you as much as it sounds - find a way to get yourself a child!

Me: Furiously typing uname -a into terminal.

Me: "Crap, I got 5.19 running"

Also me: "Calm down, it's only 5.19.13"

Rollercoaster of emotions :)